Trail of dust and gravitational waves tracked in arXiv papers

Manuscripts posted to preprint website tell a tale of increasing scepticism.

Cosmic inflation's 'smoking gun' goes up in smoke

Last March, cosmologists celebrated what seemed like evidence of gravitational waves. But 11 months later, they're nursing a hangover

Cosmic inflation: Dust finally settles on BICEP2 results

Reports of evidence of cosmic inflation may have been, well, overblown.

Galactic dust sounds death knell for BICEP2 gravitational wave claim

Joint analysis of Planck, BICEP2 and Keck data finds no cosmological B-mode signal

Cosmology: BICEP unflexed

HOW many astronomers does it take to nail a coffin shut? On January 30th two teams of scientists—one the masters of Planck, an orbiting telescope belonging to the European Space Agency; ...

Gravitational-wave hunt enters next phase

The landmark BICEP2 result has turned to dust, but the search for primordial cosmic ripples continues.

The Demise of a Discovery: BICEP2 and Gravitational Waves

Last week, BICEP2 scientists — who in March announced evidence of cosmic inflation, a potentially Nobel-worthy find — threw handfuls of dust on the grave of their own results. The official ...

Galaxy dust findings confound view of early Universe

What was the Universe like at the beginning of time? How did the Universe come to be the way it is today?—big questions and huge attention paid when scientists attempt answers. So was the ...

Curtain falls on controversial big bang result

No evidence of gravitational waves from the big bang after all, cosmologists report

Dust erases evidence for gravity wave detection

The claimed detection of primordial gravitational waves does not hold up after taking into account galactic dust, a new analysis concludes.

Planck: Gravitational waves remain elusive

Despite earlier reports of a possible detection, a joint analysis of data from ESA's Planck satellite and the ground-based BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments has found no conclusive evidence ...

Gravitational waves discovery now officially dead

Combined data from South Pole experiment BICEP2 and Planck probe point to galactic dust as confounding signal.

Leak suggests big bang find was a dusty mistake

Details of a new analysis of last year's BICEP2 results have been accidentally leaked – and seem to show that claiming a gravitational wave discovery was jumping the gun

BICEP2 vs. Planck: Will Gravitational Waves Be Found?

The BICEP2 gravitational wave announcement may have been premature, but the search has only just begun -- an interview with cosmologist Kendrick Smith.

Perimeter Institute Webcast: Cosmology in the 21st Century (Tonight, 7 p.m. EST)

Tonight at 7 p.m., live via Discovery News, we're streaming special public lecture by cosmologist Kendrick Smith, of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Ontario, Canada.

Scientists abandon highly publicized claim about cosmic discovery; new results cast doubt

Scientists who made headlines last March by announcing that they'd found long-sought evidence about the early universe are now abandoning that claim.

It's Official: That Much-Hyped Big Bang Discovery Was Literally All Dust

There will be no Nobel prizes after all. Last March, scientists announced they had discovered our first direct evidence of the Big Bang, but that evidence has been slowly crumbling away. The ...

Evidence for Cosmic Inflation Theory Bites the (Space) Dust

The signal that scientists with the BICEP2 experiment believed to be a sign of inflation in the early universe was actually light from interstellar dust. Today, scientists with BICEP2 and the ...

Discovery of Big Bang's Gravitational Waves Goes Bust, Due to Dust

A celebrated signal of big bang gravitational waves goes bust, due to dust.

BICEP2 Gravitational Wave 'Discovery' Deflates

Physicists have announced that last year's much-publicized 'discovery' of gravitational waves embedded in the 'echo' of the Big Bang was a misstep.

Evidence Of Expanding Universe May Have Been Just Dirt

It was a huge win for Big Bang supporters when, in March 2014, a team of astronomers claimed they had found direct evidence to support the concept of cosmic inflation—the… ...

Fossil Radiation Is Probably Dust, So Doubts Remain About Gravitational Waves

The third chapter in the ongoing saga of the "first direct image of gravitational waves through the primordial sky" has been written. The first chapter was in March of last year when the BICEP2 ...

Gravity Waves and Science Self-Correction

In 2011 scientists tentatively reported that they may have detected neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light in apparent contradiction to the theory of relativity. By early 2012 the ...

Scientists: Evidence of Big Bang theory fails to space dust

Amy R. ConnollyORSAY, France, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Scientists have countered a 2014 study that claimed to find evidence supporting the Big Bang theory, saying the "gravitational waves" were just ...

BICEP2 Found Interstellar Dust, Not Primordial Gravitational Waves

The Universe began about 13.8 billion years ago and evolved from an extremely hot, dense and uniform state to the rich and complex cosmos of galaxies, stars and planets we see today. The key ...

Planck on BICEP2 "It turns out that the part of the dust had been significantly underestimated." UPDATED

Apparently, PLANCK says that BICEP2 did not detect gravitational waves.  The signal was mostly intergalactic dust.   That is my reading of a Google translate translation of an official ...

Gravitational waves remain elusive, according to Planck

The satellite's work with ground-based telescopes has shown that interstellar dust was actually the cause of more than half of the signal detection announced almost a year ago.

Scientists abandon highly publicized claim about cosmic find

NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists who made headlines last March by announcing that they'd found long-sought evidence about the early universe are now abandoning that claim....

The search continues

Planck and Bicep2 join forces but gravitational waves remain elusive

BICEP2 and Planck joint study: Gravitational waves remain elusive

A new joint analysis of data from two South Pole-based experiments -- the BICEP2 telescope and the Keck Array, both supported by the National Science Foundation -- and the European Space Agency's ...

Gravitational Waves from Early Universe Remain Elusive

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 03, 2015 A joint analysis of data from the Planck space mission and the ground-based experiment BICEP2 has found no conclusive evidence of gravitational waves from the ...

BICEP2 collaboration confirms the presence of contaminants

Still doubts on gravitational waves

Trieste, Italy (SPX) Feb 03, 2015 Third (and most probably not the last) chapter in the ongoing story about the "first direct image of gravitational waves through the primordial sky". In ...

Still doubts on gravitational waves

The Planck - BICEP2 collaboration confirms the presence of contaminants

Big Bang's gravitational waves were a bust, report finds

Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Reports published last year claiming to have detected evidence of gravitational waves emitted immediately following the Big Bang were inaccurate, ...